Black Hawk Quotes

• Qué suave debe ser el lenguaje de los blancos, cuando pueden hacer que lo correcto parezca incorrecto, y lo incorrecto, correcto.

  Halcón Negro

  Native American, Native Language, Looks

  Black Hawk, John B. Patterson (1836). “Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk: With an account of the late war”, p.97

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• The path to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on your path, so that you may never experience the humility that the power of the American government has reduced me to. This is the wish of a man who, in his native forests, was once as proud and bold as yourself.

  Halcón Negro

  Humility, Men, Light

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• Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

  Halcón Negro

  Hero, Way, Sometimes

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• My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil. Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away

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  Children, Native American, Land

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• The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.

  Halcón Negro

  Mentir, Hogar, Hombres

  Quoted in Samuel G. Drake, Biography and History of the Indians of North America, 11th ed. (1841)

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• Un abuelo nativo americano estaba hablando con su nieto sobre cómo se sentía. Le dijo: "Me siento como si tuviera dos lobos luchando en mi corazón. Un lobo es el vengativo y violento, el otro lobo es el amoroso y compasivo". El nieto le preguntó: "¿Qué lobo ganará la lucha en tu corazón? El abuelo respondió: "El que yo alimento".

  Halcón Negro

  Success, Heart, Native American

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• Tengo mi mejor pie adelante en hierba más verde, porque no hay futuro viviendo en el pasado.

  Halcón Negro

  Philosophy, Past, Feet

  Song: Like There Ain't No Yesterday, Album: Strong Enough

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• [Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it.

  Halcón Negro

  Guerra, Hombres, Años

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• If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

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  Wisdom, Children, Work Out

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• When I get home and people ask me,'Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man? What are you? Some kind of war junkie? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you. And that's it. That's all it is.

  Halcón Negro

  War, Home, Men

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• You know, a friend of mine asked me before I got here... it was when we were all shipping out. He asked me, 'Why are you going to fight somebody else's war? What, do y'all think you're heroes?' I didn't know what to say at the time, but if he asked me again, I'd say no. I'd say there's no way in hell. Nobody asks to be a hero. It just sometimes turns out that way.

  Halcón Negro

  War, Hero, Fighting

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